South African Biographies

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    • Conversations with South African Serial Murderers
    • By: Brin Hodgskiss, Nicole Engelbrecht
    • Narrated by: Gavin Gomes
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Hodgskiss interviewed several of the most notorious serial killers and his recordings sat gathering dust until recently, when top true-crime podcaster Nicole Engelbrecht found his research online.

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    • Stories from a South African Childhood
    • By: Trevor Noah
    • Narrated by: Trevor Noah
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 215,777 ratings
    • Comedian Trevor Noah offers listeners a glimpse into his childhood during apartheid in South Africa in this award-winning memoir.

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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 887 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond
    • By: A.J. Balaam
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
    • Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother, or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. This is the story of Andrew Balaam, a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and the Selous Scouts for 12 years....

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    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 337 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • A Memoir of Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love....

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    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Using a wealth of previously untapped documents, Ramachandra Guha takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London, and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa...

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    • The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
    • By: Cate Lineberry
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • Facing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero....

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    • A White Boy in Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid, moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing....

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    • Stories of Life and Rugby
    • By: Johan Erasmus
    • Narrated by: Eben Genis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Rassie Erasmus has been called a genius. He’s been called reckless. All his life, he’s done things differently. Now, with his trademark candour, Rassie talks openly about his adventures and misadventures....

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    • My Three Years Inside Eskom
    • By: André de Ruyter
    • Narrated by: Nicky Rebelo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • When André de Ruyter took over as Eskom CEO in January 2020, he quickly realised why it was considered the toughest job in South Africa....

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    • From the Case Files of a Police Psychologist
    • By: Gérard Labuschagne
    • Narrated by: Gerard Rudolph
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In this gripping - and sometimes terrifying - account, former South African Police Service (SAPS) head profiler Dr Gérard Labuschagne, successor to the legendary Micki Pistorius, recalls some of the 110 murder series and countless other bizarre crimes he analysed during his career....

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    • His Life and Legacy for South Africa and the World
    • By: Bob Crew
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In Mandela, former foreign correspondent Bob Crew demystifies the icon and his legacy....

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    • Portrait of a Marriage
    • By: Jonny Steinberg
    • Narrated by: Puleng Lange-Stewart
    • Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Jonny Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage—its longings, its obsessions, its deceits—making South African history a captivating political biography. Winnie and Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesn’t affect just the couple at its center, but an entire nation....

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    • A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
    • By: Matthew Gavin Frank
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • For nearly 80 years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market....

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    • By: Winston Churchill
    • Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
    • Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Churchill tells the story of how he escaped and made a daring overland crossing, travelling only at night to avoid detection....

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    • By: John Howard Griffin
    • Narrated by: Ray Childs
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,744 ratings
    • Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....

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    • The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
    • By: Nelson Mandela
    • Narrated by: Danny Glover
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 02-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time....

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    • Stories from a South African Childhood
    • By: Trevor Noah
    • Narrated by: Trevor Noah
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,991 ratings
    • The compelling, inspiring (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed....

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